2006 Alumni Board Election
Candidates will be vying for eight seats on the Alumni Board.
They are: Region 3
-- Corey Babington '94, Scottsdale, Arizona, and Holly Colman
'86, Ventura, California; Region 4 -- Joseph Pupel '87, '90MBA,
Plymouth, Minnesota, and Patrick Reis '85, Minneapolis, Minnesota;
Region 7 -- Patrick McKeever '61, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and
Hugh Sonk '77, '79MBA, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Region 10 -- Patrick
Perrella '90, New York, New York, and Matthew Roy '88, Sea Girt,
New Jersey; Region 14 -- Paul Christmann '89, New Orleans, Louisiana,
and John O'Brien III, D.D.S. '84, Birmingham, Alabama; Region
18 -- Steve Hogan '86, Sarasota Springs, New York, and John View
'74, Syracuse, New York; Young Alumni -- Francesca Milles-Dave
'01, New York, New York, and Robert Holcomb '99, San Jose, California.
Information about the candidates will be included with the January
Alumni Newsletter, along with the ballot. Alumni can also vote
after January 12 at alumni.nd.edu
or by calling toll free 800-668-0764.
Alumni Association
Awards
Terrence E. Sauvain
'63 of Garrett Park, Maryland, is the recipient of the 2006 Rev.
John J. Cavanaugh, CSC, Award. He is minority staff director on
the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee and assistant to its
ranking minority member, Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.). After
graduating from Notre Dame, Sauvain, a native of Cleveland, went
to Washington and worked for several federal agencies. In 1973,
he moved to the Appropriations Committee, where he presently serves.
He served 30 years in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve, rising to
the rank of captain and earning both of the Coast Guard's top
commendations: Eagle Award and Meritorious Service Medal.
Mary McCann
Sanchez '79M.A. of Comayagua, Honduras, recipient of the 2006
Dr. Thomas A. Dooley Award, began a commitment to the poor of
Latin America while serving as a Holy Cross Associate in Chile
from 1979 to 1981, during the Pinochet dictatorship. Sanchez later
became a volunteer for Catholic Relief Services and the United
Nations High Commission for Refugees in Honduras, and eventually
taught in their technical school. While she was a Central America
field representative for the American Friends Service Committee,
her most critical assignment was to direct relief operations in
the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch. Even as a teacher in Chicago,
she sponsored a Salvadoran family escaping that country for sanctuary
here. She also facilitated International Summer Service Students
for Notre Dame in Honduras.
Christine Swanson
'94 and Michael Swanson '93 of Toluca Lake, California, are honored
this year with the Rev. Arthur S. Harvey, CSC, Award. Christine
is writer and director of their production company, Faith Filmworks,
Inc.; Michael is chief executive officer and producer of their
films, through which they strive to create entertaining and relevant
stories with moral resonance. The Swansons were named by CNN as
"two to watch" in Hollywood, and their films have been exhibited
and/or won prizes at the Sundance Festival, the Chicago and Santa
Barbara International Film festivals, and the HBO Short Film Competition.
Features have included All About You, Two Seasons
and Woman Thou Art Loosed.
Rev. James J. Flanigan,
CSC, '58, '63M.A. will receive this year's Rev. Anthony J. Lauck,
CSC, Award. Ordained to the priesthood in 1962, Flanigan began
his teaching career at Notre Dame in 1965 and has remained part
of the University and Holy Cross community. His works on campus
include "Blessed Brother Andre" at the south exterior wall of
the Eck Center, "Christ the Teacher" in the lawn north of the
Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore, and the Stations of the Cross in
Malloy Hall's Mary, Seat of Wisdom Chapel. Flanigan chairs the
Committee on Art and Environment for Worship for the Diocese of
Fort Wayne-South Bend. He was rector of Dillon Hall and curator
of the Snite Museum's Mestrovic Collection, as well as second
assistant provincial for healthcare and retirement for the Congregation
of Holy Cross, Indiana Province.
Dr. Francis M. Kobayashi
'47, '48M.S., '53Ph.D. is recipient of the 2006 Rev. John Cardinal
O'Hara Award in honor of his service to the University as professor,
researcher and administrator. A professor emeritus of aerospace
and mechanical engineering, he retired a decade ago as assistant
vice president of the Graduate School research division. Kobayashi
has been a tireless promoter of the research interests of the
Notre Dame faculty. He taught and conducted ground-breaking research
here, received Student Government's Faculty Service Award in 1958,
worked briefly for the fledgling National Science Foundation (NSF)
in Washington, D.C., and for 30 years promoted and assisted faculty
in their sponsored research work. He served Notre Dame on the
faculty senate and on a committee that evaluated the use of human
subjects in research.
Kenneth
L. Woodward '57 is recipient of the 2006 Rev. Robert F. Griffin,
CSC, Award. Religion editor of Newsweek for 38 years
and currently a contributing editor, he has written more than
750 articles for Newsweek, including more than 40 cover
stories. He also has contributed to The New York Times, The
Washington Post, America, Commonweal, The Christian Century
and The Nation. Woodward received the American Society
of Magazine Editors' National Magazine Award and five Wilbur Awards
from the Religious Communicators Council. He contributed to The
Bible in America, which won the Laymen's National Bible Committee's
Citation of Appreciation. In 1979 he received the Women in Communications,
Inc. Clarion Award for his cover story "Living With Dying," and
in 1976 was given the American Psychological Foundation National
Media Award for "Who's Raising the Kids?" Woodward's articles
on the civil rights movement won him the William E. Leidt Award
in 1965 and 1981. He holds four honorary doctoral degrees.
Tavis
to Host Europe Trip
Alumni are invited to join Notre Dame Professor Lee Tavis '53
on the "Legendary Passage" trip to France, Switzerland and Germany,
May 5-17. Tavis became the C.R. Smith Professor of Finance after
serving as a naval aviator, working as an associate consultant
for McKinsey and Company, studying at Stanford and Indiana University,
and teaching at the University of Texas-Austin. At Notre Dame,
he founded the Program on Multinational Managers and Developing
Country Concerns, and is a faculty fellow of the Joan B. Kroc
Institute for International Peace Studies and the Helen Kellogg
Institute for International Studies. For more information on alumni
travel programs, visit alumni.nd.edu/travel/index.html
or call 1-800-634-2631.
Theology
Online
STEP (Satellite Theological Education Program) at the University
of Notre Dame offers alums a convenient way to learn from some
of ND's best theology professors. The program delivers online
courses ranging from four to six weeks in duration. Notre Dame
faculty have prepared courses on such topics as sacraments, liturgy,
scripture, ethics, Christology, doctrine and American Catholicism. For
complete course schedules and registration information, visit
the STEP website at step.nd.edu.
(January 2006)
